David Saba­ti­ni re­signs MIT pro­fes­sor­ship af­ter sex­u­al ha­rass­ment probe led to ouster from White­head In­sti­tute

The promi­nent biotech founder and re­searcher David Saba­ti­ni has re­signed his tenured spot on MIT’s fac­ul­ty.

Saba­ti­ni stepped down fol­low­ing an ex­ter­nal probe that found he had vi­o­lat­ed the sex­u­al ha­rass­ment poli­cies of MIT’s White­head In­sti­tute, ac­cord­ing to a pub­lic let­ter from MIT pres­i­dent L. Rafael Reif. Saba­ti­ni was pre­vi­ous­ly oust­ed from White­head af­ter the probe’s find­ings, but the lat­est de­vel­op­ment saw him leave MIT al­to­geth­er.

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